Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 369 - 23: Military Merit Acquired, Can Farming Also Lead to Becoming a Marquis?!_3

Chapter 369: Chapter 23: Military Merit Acquired, Can Farming Also Lead to Becoming a Marquis?!_3

At different times, the demands are different, and the tasks are not immutable.

It was the same for the Minister of Agriculture.

"The daily tasks now all revolve around ’Primordial Energy Supply’ food."

"The soldiers needed a large amount of food to replenish their strength and restore their primordial energy."

"But as time went on, the involvement of the Insect Witch, Poison Witch, and Blood Witch from the Southern Desolate would cause a sharp increase in the demand for detoxification and blood replenishing herbs!"

"Additionally, entering extreme regions of the Southern Desolate, such as the ’Purple Cloud Swamp,’ which was full of highly toxic miasma, even a Fourth Rank Detoxification Pill wouldn’t last long. Only elixirs made from ’Sky Heart Grass’ could provide prolonged protection."

"Furthermore, when attacking the ’Fire Demon Clan’ of the Purple Dragon Royal Court, the environment where the Fire Demon Clan lived was filled with fire poison. They were already accustomed to living in such places, but the soldiers of Great Zhou were not."

"Fire-Repelling Clothes made with Earth Fire Lotus became the most cost-effective Fourth Rank battle attire... the Military Realm cooked up universal tasks and basic tasks for the Minister of Agriculture, all of which involved these items, earning a lot of battle merit."

Zhao Xing recalled scenes from the previous life when analyzing the case of ’Emperor Jing’s Southern Campaign.’

"Such items were sure to be in great shortage. I must prepare in advance."

The Southern Desolate Four Great Royal Courts were not incapable of fighting, but their initial step-by-step retreat was a strategy to use the Southern Desolate environment to obstruct the enemy.

The Minister of Agriculture’s planting of crops was almost intertwined with every occupation; the Engineering Department’s machinery required all sorts of timber.

The Priest’s yellow paper, the incense, and the Weaver’s vestment robe materials were no exception.

It could be said that the Minister of Agriculture was upstream of most professions.

"I remember that in this Southern Campaign, several Ministers of Agriculture leveraged their keen judgment on front-line battle reports to cultivate a large amount of urgently needed materials and ended up being ennobled as marquises."

Zhao Xing mumbled to himself, "Who knows, I might follow in the footsteps of my teacher’s ancestors."

Marquis Tian inherited his title from his ancestors.

Back then, his ancestors were conferred the title of duke for assisting the Grand Ancestor in wars and their excellent farming skills after the founding of the state.

Why did Zhao Xing, upon arrival at City No. 92, immediately tell Han Bing to adjust the direction of the Minister of Agriculture Supervision?

Because he remembered very clearly what materials were needed when. When analyzing the Southern Campaign case from the previous life, these were all crucial things to remember.

If these things were not remembered, the success rate would drastically decrease.

"Besides farming, there were many other ways to earn battle merits, including even robbery."

Zhao Xing stood up and went outside the prefecture gate.

At that time, the Netherflame Warship had already flown to the territory of the Heavenly Workshop.

However, the spoils in the storage room were all left behind, and Wang Ji was leading people to categorize and summarize them.

"Among the stolen items were a large number of herbs, food, and materials for crafting equipment."

"Once these items were submitted, I could earn a significant amount of battle merits."

Zhao Xing smiled.

The items looted by the Sha Clan were mostly materials on the task list.

With the materials already in hand, submitting them would naturally complete the tasks immediately.

Long Xiao did not want these, giving them all to Zhao Xing.

One reason was that he was too lazy to want these scraps; killing a seventh-rank individual could earn him between one thousand to four thousand battle merits.

Another reason was that the ’universal tasks’ of a Martial Artist were relatively few; even if he handed over the spoils of war, there weren’t many battle merits to gain. If the spoils were converted into battle merits, the value wasn’t high either.

So he simply gave them to Zhao Xing to handle.

"Zhao Xing, everything is sorted." Wang Ji came running over, "Among the items looted by the Sha Clan were fourteen thousand five hundred and thirty-two pieces of finished battle armor and equipment, mostly second and third rank, with only about a dozen fourth-rank items."

"Various herb materials, ores, crafting materials, and vestment robe materials totaling fifty-three thousand four hundred sixty-two semi-finished items, mostly third-rank, with very few second-rank and fourth-rank materials."

Zhao Xing looked over the list and nodded, "Allocate ten percent of these things and send them to Chen Lu of the Zhenhai Army; this is what I promised him."

"As for the rest, store the finished items in each department’s internal warehouse for emergency needs. If any department encounters a particularly difficult ’occupation task’ with urgent needs, they can use these."

Wang Ji nodded, his respect for Zhao Xing increasing once again.

All these were Zhao Xing’s personal spoils, but he was willing to put them in the internal warehouses for future use, reflecting his broad vision.

"As for the semi-finished materials, anything related to the Minister of Agriculture’s occupation tasks and universal tasks, store them in the Divine Might Army’s internal warehouse and the transfer warehouse for submission to earn my personal battle merits. I’ve been missing tasks for almost a month now; let me catch up on all the battle merit tasks I can complete," Zhao Xing said.

Things related to the Minister of Agriculture he wouldn’t set aside for future use; he had to meet his own needs first.

"Understood." Wang Ji immediately followed Zhao Xing’s instructions.

Zhao Xing then opened the Earth Mirror and looked at the Military Realm task of his Jun Shu Order.

As Wang Ji sent someone to archive the tasks.

Several task completion notifications appeared in the Earth Mirror:

[Divine Might Army’s Zhao Xing, you completed the ’Planting Sweet Spirit Grass’ task (three thousand pieces), earning 6000 battle merits. This task cannot be submitted again this month.]

[Divine Might Army’s Zhao Xing, you completed the ’Planting Fuzi Fruit’ task (one thousand pieces), earning 1000 battle merits. This task cannot be submitted again this month.]

[Divine Might Army’s Zhao Xing, you completed...]